You guys really do use distrobox? I never used it, all my stuff is flatpak
You guys really do use distrobox? I never used it, all my stuff is flatpak
Kheavily
Twe even have a GUI for distrobox preinstalled
KInteresting, I don't use it on Kinoite or even on SteamOS (Deck)
Tsometimes it's needed
Tnot everyone will use it for sure
KWhy do you guys use it, dev stuff?
Ti install .deb and .rpm files, and use the AUR too
LWell, I was gonna get an SD card anyways, can I put bazzlite on that SD card then plug in the keyboard in the USB?
LI know booting off sd is possible
Ksublime text, sublime merge, various minor things on the AUR, some applications only packaged as .deb, oversteer, solaar
Kmight work, but we can't promise it'll be painless
Thighly not recommended for performance and possibly the lifespan of that card though
Kif it's only the installer it's OK
KI just can't guarantee it works
LI just remembered I have a shitty 128 GB card around
Tif the same thing happens that happened with the one help thread where someone installed it on a USB external drive and in a VM (im not sure where the VM came in here either)
Tthen it may not work
Tbut good luck
KYeah I only use my Deck to game, so I never had to use distrobox
Kand also anytime I compile anything
Tsometimes the only pc someone owns is a handheld PC like the deck
Thave already seen tons of users where thats their only dedicated PC
GDistrobox is my go to for any CLI programs as well
KI have 3 devices to use, and only code on one of them, the one with Windows, which is my laptop, my Linux desktop and my Steam Deck is for gaming
GI also have all the python dependencies and scripts for loading AI models in a container
KI do web-dev so it's not really complicated, maybe that is why I never had to use it up until now, only need like, Node and that's it
KI am full-time web dev and my web-dev tools all run in distrobox
Kbecause the flatpak versions of them are years out of date
KNow that is interesting
KI also have node in distrobox
KI thought they were up to date
KFlatpak'd sublime is still Sublime 2
KSublime 3 has been out for a very long time
Tand because of this, it has end of life flatpak runtimes
Tso highly recommend to use it in a container
KCan I use node that was installed on a container distrobox, into my VS Codes flatpak app?
Kprobably not, but you can create a web dev box with vscode and node installed in it
KYeah I figured
Tdistrobox is not scary!
Tuse boxbuddy
KMight be easier to create a container and install VS Code
Kthat's distrobox with extra steps
KBut that is what you said
KMaybe I phrased it wrongly
Tyeah they mean they should create a distrobox container and install vscode and all the other stuff in it
Tand yeah i agree
Tmake a nice dev environment
KAnyway, my point is that I rarely code on Linux, mostly I code on Windows, so using distrobox sounds like overkill, might just grab my laptop whenever I need to code and leave my Linux systems solely for gaming instead
KAnd I use Windows because of my company software only being compatible with this OS
KWhich is funny if you think about it: Linux? Gaming! Windows? Coding!
